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Mars On Earth - Mars On Earth [EP]
2001
01. Mars On Earth
02. Planets
03. Die Stadt Ist Im Krieg
04. Bleeding Underwater
At first, I - foolishly - thought Mars On Earth was a pretty weird band name. It is, however, everything but a weird band name. In fact, it makes perfect sense. You see, aliens from Mars visited the Earth (see?) to record this mini-CD, their view of our world, their prediction of our future, only to leave again. Where to? Back to Mars, of course!
So, Mars On Earth, a three-headed Martian monster. Their vision of our future contains of (hold you breath, fasten your seatbelt and be sure to wear a protective yellow helmet): it's Black metal. Ish. With Industrial touches. Sort of. There's also plenty of electronic tom-foolery, such as blips and bleeps, military march-styled drum beats, passages that sound like they're lifted strange from an old Nintendo 64 adventure-type game, etc. Oh yeah, there are also raw, staccato, almost spoken-word-esque rasps and some sort of strange clean chanting.
That's really the best I can do, as far as sound descriptions go. That's partially because my English vacubo, vocuba, vacuobe... dammit... vocabulary (!) is limited to, say, fifty-ish words, but also because there's really no way to describe Mars On Earth*. And in my book (why do people use this expression? is this 'book' your diary? why the fuck would anyone older than thirteen keep a diary? are you a pussy?) that's usually pretty good.
If you like'd some of my previous, wacky recommendations, or if you like extreme & wacky metal in general, definitely give this a shot. While not overly genius, it's definitely a very fun, catchy little bugger.
I'd like to end this review with a word of appreciation for these kind Martians, who were friendly enough to take interest in our blue and green planet and leaving us with a really cool demo. Now, if only us Earthly metalheads would also be blessed with some music from Venus On Earth...
Nope, we're all going to die as virgins.
* It's actually pretty easy to describe them, as long as you can't be bothered with details. The term 'Industrial Black metal' covers the music pretty well. But I like to keep a mysterious aura around my favourite bands. It's pathetic, I know.
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Written on 04.11.2010 by
Lucas
If you're interested in extreme, often emotional and underground music, check out my reviews. I retired from reviewing, but I really used to be into that stuff.
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| Nice one. You should have marketed it as power metal/melodic somethingmetal though as then people would listen to it. As it is you probably just scared to death 87.3% of metal storm... |
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 Mikyz - 04.11.2010 at 18:43
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| The band name is pretty weird though Mars ON Earth, if it was Martians on Earth it would mean something but...whatever. Concerning the music its weird... fortunately it's a good kind of weird not a bad one, very addictive. I enjoyed reading review XD |
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 Lucas - 04.11.2010 at 18:46
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Written by Mikyz on 04.11.2010 at 18:43
The band name is pretty weird though Mars ON Earth, if it was Martians on Earth it would mean something but...whatever. Concerning the music its weird... fortunately it's a good kind of weird not a bad one, very addictive. I enjoyed reading review XD
I assume they meant Mars On Earth in the sense that a delegation of Mars visited Earth, in the same way that... uhh.... idunno, they're German, who the hell knows what they were thinking.  |
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| The name keeps making think of Life on Mars, some popular TV series in the UK. |
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I've been searching this thingie eversince it was mentioned somewhere (  ), thank goth the net is vast and i'll find my way out soon enough, at least i hope so  |
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